In this post, we will explore how to set up a Grid
and add powerful features such as sorting and paging.
We will first add the following references:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jqwidgets/styles/jqx.classic.css" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../scripts/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../jqwidgets/jqxlistbox.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../jqwidgets/jqxdropdownlist.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../jqwidgets/jqxmenu.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js"></script>
Add a div
tag to the document’s body to use it as a Grid
. The div
will be initialized as a Grid
widget using JavaScript.
<div id="Grid"></div>
Add the data source initialization code. In this sample, we will bind the Grid
to a data array with ‘firstname
’, ‘lastname
’, ‘productname
’, ‘quantity
’, ‘price
’ and ‘total
’ members.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
var data = new Array();
var firstNames =
[
"Andrew", "Nancy", "Shelley", "Regina",
"Yoshi", "Antoni", "Mayumi", "Ian",
"Peter", "Lars", "Petra", "Martin",
"Sven", "Elio", "Beate",
"Cheryl", "Michael", "Guylene"
];
var lastNames =
[
"Fuller", "Davolio", "Burke", "Murphy",
"Nagase", "Saavedra", "Ohno", "Devling",
"Wilson", "Peterson", "Winkler", "Bein",
"Petersen", "Rossi", "Vileid",
"Saylor", "Bjorn", "Nodier"
];
var productNames =
[
"Black Tea", "Green Tea", "Caffe Espresso",
"Doubleshot Espresso", "Caffe Latte",
"White Chocolate Mocha", "Cramel Latte",
"Caffe Americano", "Cappuccino", "Espresso Truffle",
"Espresso con Panna", "Peppermint Mocha Twist"
];
var priceValues =
[
"2.25", "1.5", "3.0", "3.3", "4.5",
"3.6", "3.8", "2.5", "5.0",
"1.75", "3.25", "4.0"
];
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
var row = {};
var productindex = Math.floor(Math.random() * productNames.length);
var price = parseFloat(priceValues[productindex]);
var quantity = 1 + Math.round(Math.random() * 10);
row["firstname"] = firstNames[Math.floor(Math.random() * firstNames.length)];
row["lastname"] = lastNames[Math.floor(Math.random() * lastNames.length)];
row["productname"] = productNames[productindex];
row["price"] = price;
row["quantity"] = quantity;
row["total"] = price * quantity;
data[i] = row;
}
}
);
</script>
To initialize the Grid
, we create a source object with ‘data
’ and ‘datatype
’ members. We set the ‘data
’ member to the data array and the ‘datatype
’ member to ‘array
’. Then, we pass the source object to the Grid
and also initialize its columns. Each column should have at least two members – ‘text
’ and ‘datafield
’. The ‘text
’ member specifies the text displayed in the column’s header and the ‘datafield
’ member associates the grid column (e.g.: ‘First Name
’) to the data column (e.g.: ‘firstname
’). Additional column properties that we use are ‘width
’, ‘cellsalign
’, and ‘cellsformat
’. The ‘width
’ property sets the column header’s width. The ‘cellsalign
’ and ‘cellsformat
’ specify how the grid cells are aligned and formatted. To enable the Grid paging and sorting features, we set the ‘pageable
’ and ‘sortable
’ properties to true
.
var source =
{
data: data,
datatype: "array"
};
$("#Grid").jqxGrid(
{
source: source,
theme: 'classic',
pageable: true,
sortable: true,
autoheight: true,
columns: [
{ text: 'First Name', datafield: 'firstname', width: 100 },
{ text: 'Last Name', datafield: 'lastname', width: 100 },
{ text: 'Product', datafield: 'productname', width: 180 },
{ text: 'Quantity', datafield: 'quantity',
width: 80, cellsalign: 'right' },
{ text: 'Unit Price', datafield: 'price',
width: 90, cellsalign: 'right', cellsformat: 'c2' },
{ text: 'Total', datafield: 'total',
cellsalign: 'right', cellsformat: 'c2' }
]
});
Here’s how looks the Grid
after we start the application:
The Grid
looks like this after clicking the ‘First Name
’ column:
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